10 Innings...

... no winner.

Cool temps and low humidity greeted nine whifflers at Nance Bradds this morning. Five-on-four play commenced at nine a.m. sharp and the home team got to scoring in the bottom of the first.  Commish Berwald was pitching and gave up three singles in succession to Ben, Dave and Kurt.  Laura stepped into the box with the bases loaded, none out.  Pete induced the ground ball and made the attempt at the double play.  Unfortunately, he threw a curve and missed the box (by quite a lot, really) allowing a run, and earning a second RBI on the season for Hume.  Peter got out of the inning without further damage, but the 1-0 lead for the home-standers would hold until the top of the ninth.

In the ninth, Laura took the ball; the lead was lost by the second batter.  Single (Stats), triple (Peter) tied the score.  The visitors built a very credible threat after that, but were unable to take a lead.  Stats and Kim each pitched scoreless halves of the tenth, and it was all over.  No tie-breaking procedure was employed.

In between the scoring innings Ben, Matt, Kurt, Hansoo, Laura, Glen, Kim, Peter, Dave, Matt, Ben, Hansoo, Kurt, and Glen (in that order) authored seven scoreless innings, recording a total of 28 strikeouts.  Putting the "Whiff" in Whiffle.

Glen, Matt, Peter, Hansoo - 1
Ben, Dave, Kurt, Laura, Kim - 1
10 Innings
W, L, S - None
BS - Laura Hume

Notes:

• With his strikeout of Kim in the first inning, Peter Berwald became the season's first 100/100 man - 100 hits as a batter; 100 K's as a pitcher.  Next in line would be Kurt, needing 12 more hits and 2 more K's.
• An eventful game for Laura, driving in her team's sole run and later getting a hit off da Commish.  However, her 1-for-8 still lowered her BA.
• As teammates, the batting leaders were tested by the same pitchers today.  Kurt Mosser really opened up some space in the batting chase.  His 6-for-8 raised his average to 0.451 - 0.030 clear of Dave's 0.421, which was the result of his 2-for-8 day.  Dave has slipped to third in the BA charts, behind the elusive, rarely seen Brian Simpson.